Simcountry is a multiplayer Internet game in which you are the president, commander in chief, and industrial leader. You have to make the tough decisions about cutting or raising taxes, how to allocate the federal budget, what kind of infrastructure you want, etc..

What are you talking about? I live on LU, and generally watch the markets (but not every product, and all the time). The market doesn't seem to be too out of the ordinary at the moment? The products that have occasional extreme shortages are acting up, (space shuttles, solid missile fuel, strategic airports), but that is more to do with the volatility of demand overwhelming the system's ability to change rapidly. Some products are oversupplied, but again, nothing too out of the ordinary.

If you were talking about the mini crash in the Oil market, I think that was because of C3's having to close a lot of Electric Power Corps, when their population was reduced. However, I don't have enough data to be sure.

Sunday, June 23, 2019 - 03:04 am I don't mind oversupply, it's unrealistic for most products to be in severe shortage for years on end. What does annoy me though, is when the oversupply is fake, from a product dump. Even though underlying production is still in severe shortage.

Personally, I think the game needs more production, to help bring proper balance to the markets. And some anti-dumping protections, so that oversupply is the result of actual overproduction, instead of just market manipulation.

At the moment, we have a situation where the overall market is in permanent shortage. Because it is impossible for players to produce enough goods to make up for consumption. Then the GM market defence system has to make products out of thin air, so the shortages don't cause total collapse. Many products only ever leave shortage due to market manipulation.

A real market moves between surplus and shortage as production and demand change, because they are roughly balanced. In Simcountry, there is far to much demand, but far to little production, with market manipulators just making it seem like we are moving back and forth.